Internal displacement of people affects the lives of people forced to leave their homes because of conflict, violence, climate change or disasters in many ways:

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• Access to land, housing, infrastructure, education, health, social life, security, and living environment changes and degrades

• Displaced people lose their livelihoods, as a result of being pushed away from their ancestral lands and way of life

• They risk losing their culture and language 

• Consequently, they experience months or years without a way to live decently, honorably, and with dignity

• People move from independent living in harmony with nature, to being dependent on the new communities to which they were moved involuntarily